238 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



informal discussion wherever the students met together, the educa- 

 tional influences of the school were greatly extended. 



The faculty consisted of 35 men, of whom 26 were professors in 

 agricultural colleges, 7 were leading officers and experts of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and 2 were officers of the New 

 York State Experiment Station. 



Seventy-five students were in attendance. These were drawn 

 from 28 States and Territories, including such widely separated 

 regions as Maine, Oregon, California, New Mexico, and Alabama. 

 There was one student from Canada and one from Argentina. There 

 was also one woman, and the colored race was represented by teachers 

 from the Tuskegee Institute and the agricultural college at Greens- 

 boro, N. C. Twenty-seven of the students were professors or assist- 

 ant professors in the agricultural colleges, 31 were assistants in the 

 agricultural colleges and experiment stations, 9 were recent college 

 graduates, and 8 were engaged in farming. 



The success of this first session was so marked that the continuance 

 of the school was deemed advisable, but various causes have pre- 

 vented the holding of the second session until the present year. At 

 the convention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges 

 and Experiment Stations held at Washington, D. C, in November, 

 1905, the association voted to assume responsibility for the graduate 

 school and committed its management to the standing committee on 

 graduate study. This committee promptly accepted the invitation 

 of the trustees and president of the University of Illinois to hold the 

 second session here and took measures for the organization of a 

 faculty and programme. 



The honorable Secretary of Agriculture again expressed his inten- 

 tion to cooperate cordially in furthering the interests of the school. 

 Acting on his advice and at the invitation of the committee on gradu- 

 ate study, the Director of the Office of T^iXperiment Stations con- 

 sented to act again as its dean, and to assemble a faculty. The dean 

 of the college of agriculture at the University of Illinois consented to 

 act as registrar, and as the representative of the university has 

 attended to all the local arrangements for the school, its advertising, 

 and the registration of students. 



Under present conditions, therefore, the Graduate School of Agri- 

 culture is truly a national institution conducted by the Association 

 of jfVmerican Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, but 

 with the cooperation for this second session of the Department of 

 Agriculture and the University of Illinois. Its board of management 

 is the conuuittee on graduate study of the association, consisting of 

 Prof. L. II. Bailey, of Cornell University, Xew York, chairman; 

 Dr. II. P. Ariiisby, of State College, Pennsylvania; President M. II. 

 Buckliam, of the University of \'ermont; President R. II. Jesse, of the 



